New Technique Reveals Insights Into Lung Disease, UK

Doctors at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham are collaborating to use a magnetic resonance technique to image and quantify the air spaces inside the lungs. The results of their research may lead to a link between childhood disease and later degenerative lung disease (COPD). There are relatively few centres around the world which have access to this particular magnetic resonance technique, which is based in Nottingham University. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: MRI / PET / Ultrasound on December 15th, 2007